PS Classics will release the world-premiere cast album of Far From Heaven, starring Tony Award nominee Kelli O'Hara and Steven Pasquale, Nov. 12. In anticipation of the album's release, Playbill.com is sharing an exclusive track from the musical that has a score by Tony Award-nominated songwriters Michael Korie and Scott Frankel.

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The original Off-Broadway cast gathered July 12 to record the album, which is produced by 17-time Grammy Award-winning producer Steven Epstein (Once, The Light in the Piazza, Grey Gardens). PS Classics previously recorded Korie and Frankel's acclaimed Grey Gardens.

The stage production is based on Todd Haynes' Academy Award-nominated 2002 film of the same title. Far From Heaven has a book by Take Me Out Tony Award winner Richard Greenberg.

Here is O'Hara performing "Autumn in Connecticut."

Tony nominee Michael Greif (If/Then, Grey Gardens, Rent, Next to Normal) directed Far From Heaven, which ran Off-Broadway May 8-July 7 at Playwrights Horizons. The musical features orchestrations by Tony Award winner Bruce Coughlin (The Light in the Piazza, Grey Gardens) and musical direction by Lawrence Yurman. Far From Heaven featured four-time Tony nominee O'Hara (South Pacific, The Light in the Piazza) as Cathy Whitaker, Pasquale (The Bridges of Madison County, A Man of No Importance) as Frank Whitaker and Isaiah Johnson (Peter and the Starcatcher; The Merchant of Venice) as Raymond Deagan.

The 32-track disc is accompanied by a 36-page full-color booklet complete with essay by Jesse Green, synopsis, full lyrics and production photographs.

Lyricist Michael Korie told Playbill.com, "I knew I wanted an opening song that would establish a 'picture postcard' of the world Cathy Whitaker lives in – before the shadows start to encroach. I thought of that descriptive sub-genre of New England songs like 'Moonlight in Vermont' or the Judy Garland - Bing Crosby duet 'Connecticut,' and suggested the idea of a song called 'Autumn in Connecticut' to Scott. He thought about it and then wrote the music first. It sang to me and I wrote the words after."

Composer Scott Frankel continued, "This was one of the first set pieces we wrote. I knew that we needed something to establish time, mood and milieu, which Todd Haynes does so evocatively in the opening shots of the film. I also wanted to underline the fact that Cathy Whitaker has a special affinity for nature and the outdoors. This vibrant natural world stands in sharp contrast to the Whitakers' hermetically sealed suburban existence."

In the show, according to PH, "Cathy Whitaker (O'Hara) seems to be the picture-perfect wife and mother in 1957 suburban Connecticut. But roiling beneath the surface, secret longings and forbidden desires cause her world to unravel, with incendiary consequences. With a lush score that is both jazz-inflected and hauntingly lyrical, Far From Heaven is a powerful story of romance, betrayal and intolerance, as a woman grapples with her identity in a society on the verge of upheaval."

Far From Heaven was commissioned, developed and produced through the Playwrights Horizons Musicals in Partnership Initiative, with leadership support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Founded in 2000 by Tommy Krasker & Philip Chaffin, and an eight-time Grammy nominee (for its cast albums of Assassins, Nine: The Musical, Grey Gardens, Company, A Little Night Music, Sondheim on Sondheim, Follies and The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess), PS Classics celebrates the heritage of Broadway and American popular song through award-winning cast recordings; solo albums by such artists as Maureen McGovern, Victoria Clark, Steven Pasquale, Liz Callaway and Christine Andreas; and restorations of long-lost musicals, including Sweet Little Devil, Sweet Bye and Bye and Strike Up the Band 1930. Recent releases include Rebecca Luker’s solo disc "I Got Love (Songs of Jerome Kern)," the world premiere recording of Anthony Rapp’s one-man show, Without You, and the revue Noel and Cole.